Biden Wants to Shore Up Medicare. What That Would Look Like.

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

58% : The unearned income portion refers to the 3.8% net investment income tax that was created by the Affordable Care Act and has been levied on higher earners since 2013.
49% : Like Social Security, Medicare faces the looming insolvency of its trust fund, which would jeopardize some benefits for the older adults and people under 65 with certain disabilities who rely on the program.
45% : (Since the president has long promised not to raise taxes on those making under $400,000, his proposal would raise the net investment income-tax rate to 5.0% for taxpayers with incomes above that amount.)
23% : President Joe Biden has proposed raising taxes on high earners to shore up the Medicare trust fund.

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